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Perhaps because he is a gambler himself, Author Guetti provides Hatcher with a complete metamorphosis from professor to high roller. When last seen he is heading south in a Cadillac for more action.-Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...crusting on his boots, every slap of leather chaps against dungarees, even the feel of sweated denim against the man's chest, reminds him of his failure. The champ, good-natured, broadfacedly smiling, watches Bonner tape his bruised midsection. ("Whooiee!" says Twilliger). He also backs up Bonner's white Cadillac to his horse trailer. "Maybe I'd better take up another line of work," says Bonner...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Lonesome Cowboy, Wandering Son | 8/11/1972 | See Source »

...about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste of our Sunshine," the girl answers, as she flips a can of beer over...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Lonesome Cowboy, Wandering Son | 8/11/1972 | See Source »

...youth and his ability, Tom Eagleton made a lot of friends in Jeff City and around Missouri. He is known as a smooth, effective campaigner, charming his constituents with his informality and wry, self-effacing wit. Pulling into small towns, he has been known to pop out of his Cadillac and announce: "Here I am, folks, in living color." In rural areas he can be as folksy as the soybean farmers in his audience. "I know," he will drawl, "that you don't want to hear this on a hot day. But somebody wrote this speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying the possibility of naming Cadillac. Says K. & E. Chairman Stanley Tannenbaum of name naming: "If that's consumerism, I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Naming Names | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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